It was supposed to be eerie when two posts on TVT bore the exact same timestamp, though given the speed of the forums in question (Yack Fest and It Just Bugs Me!) this was not uncommon
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder caused by the brain's inability to regulate sleep-wake cycles normally.[1] People with narcolepsy often experience disturbed nocturnal sleep and an abnormal daytime sleep pattern, which often is confused with insomnia. Narcoleptics, when falling asleep, generally experience the REM stage of sleep within 5 minutes; whereas most people do not experience REM sleep until an hour or so later.[2]
Another one of the many problems that some narcoleptics experience is cataplexy, a sudden muscular weakness brought on by strong emotions (though many people experience cataplexy without having an emotional trigger).[3] It often manifests as muscular weaknesses ranging from a barely perceptible slackening of the facial muscles to the dropping of the jaw or head, weakness at the knees (often referred to as "knee buckling[4]"), or a total collapse. Usually speech is slurred and vision is impaired (double vision, inability to focus), but hearing and awareness remain normal. In some rare cases, an individual's body becomes paralyzed and muscles become stiff. Some narcolepsy affected persons also experience heightened senses of taste and smell.
Narcolepsy is a neurological sleep disorder. It is not caused by mental illness or psychological problems. It is most likely affected by a number of genetic mutations and abnormalities that affect specific biologic factors in the brain, combined with an environmental trigger during the brain's development, such as a virus.[5]
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The most pronounced example of this I can think of was last year during my family road trip.
Mother and I were talking as we came up I-75 and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" came on the radio. Somehow I then fell asleep, had a vivid dream involving neighbors and quilts, and woke up and mentioned the dream to Mother all before the 7-minute song ended.
It was very strange when I realized what happened.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Guiliano di Medici has now arrived at the Duomo, but he is too late to take his place at the front, at the altar with his brother. Guiliano takes a place near the back, at a door, flanked by his friends, whom he leans heavily on for support. Raffaele hitches his horse at a post at the side of the Duomo, and, knowing that he is late, discretely enters through a small side door, entering close to the Archbishop, who leans on the door and keeps his hand on the handle, so the door does not close completely. This is a stroke of luck for the Archbishop, as this door only opens from outside. He is now provided with an escape route that cannot be used by his enemies inside should he close it.
This is more than has been provided for the two priests that stand so serenely behind Lorenzo, who is bowing as the mass begins. The congregation falls completely silent out of reverence, and everybody bows in prayer. The Bell rings, and the Priest raises the Host.
As the Bell rings, Bernardo de Bandini Baroncellui stabs Guiliano in the head as Francesco di Pazzi shoves Guiliano to the floor, where, with no support but his legs, being shoved to the floor, with his weight on his spine, Guiliano is in inordinate pain.
At the same Bell-ringing moment, one of the priests stumbles as he takes his sword out, and places his hand on Lorenzo's shoulder to support himself. At the same time, the other priest draws his knife to strike.
Just after the bell rings.
"Here, Traitor!" Bernardo screams as Guiliano de Medici howls in pain.
At the same time, Lorenzo opens his eyes, sees the blades, and jumps back, taking only a minor slash to the arm.
Francesco di Pazzi stabs Guiliano, ferociously, drawing his other knife, kicking, and jumping his charge, while Bernardo jumps off a nearby bench through a stained-glass window, onto a horse that has been hitched to a post.
Meanwhile, Lorenzo di Medici has drawn his sword and is rushing to the nearest door, which is a small side-door that the Achbishop is keeping slightly ajar.
From the time that the Bell started ringing it has been about three seconds.
And from this moment on, all heck has broken loose. Screaming, stabbing, the crowd is a frenzied mob and the congregation is a riot. The Archbishop bolts out his side door and slams it. He then signals to the archers outside to cover the other doors, Medici can't take this route.
Lorenzo gets to the side door which, obviously, does not open, despite frantic efforts. Now he has to make it to another door, which is through a half-dozen assassins.
Guiliano grabs the main door, which is bolted. He has now been stabbed seven times.
Doctor Who reference in Pokemon B2W2? Headcanon accepted.
One of the guys they brought in for that experimental combat hunter training I was a part of is featured in this month's Field and Stream, for the same thing he trained us on: binoculars
Guiliano di Medici has now arrived at the Duomo, but he is too late to take his place at the front, at the altar with his brother. Guiliano takes a place near the back, at a door, flanked by his friends, whom he leans heavily on for support. Raffaele hitches his horse at a post at the side of the Duomo, and, knowing that he is late, discretely enters through a small side door, entering close to the Archbishop, who leans on the door and keeps his hand on the handle, so the door does not close completely. This is a stroke of luck for the Archbishop, as this door only opens from outside. He is now provided with an escape route that cannot be used by his enemies inside should he close it.
This is more than has been provided for the two priests that stand so serenely behind Lorenzo, who is bowing as the mass begins. The congregation falls completely silent out of reverence, and everybody bows in prayer. The Bell rings, and the Priest raises the Host.
As the Bell rings, Bernardo de Bandini Baroncellui stabs Guiliano in the head as Francesco di Pazzi shoves Guiliano to the floor, where, with no support but his legs, being shoved to the floor, with his weight on his spine, Guiliano is in inordinate pain.
At the same Bell-ringing moment, one of the priests stumbles as he takes his sword out, and places his hand on Lorenzo's shoulder to support himself. At the same time, the other priest draws his knife to strike.
Just after the bell rings.
"Here, Traitor!" Bernardo screams as Guiliano de Medici howls in pain.
At the same time, Lorenzo opens his eyes, sees the blades, and jumps back, taking only a minor slash to the arm.
Francesco di Pazzi stabs Guiliano, ferociously, drawing his other knife, kicking, and jumping his charge, while Bernardo jumps off a nearby bench through a stained-glass window, onto a horse that has been hitched to a post.
Meanwhile, Lorenzo di Medici has drawn his sword and is rushing to the nearest door, which is a small side-door that the Achbishop is keeping slightly ajar.
From the time that the Bell started ringing it has been about three seconds.
And from this moment on, all heck has broken loose. Screaming, stabbing, the crowd is a frenzied mob and the congregation is a riot. The Archbishop bolts out his side door and slams it. He then signals to the assassins outside to cover the other doors, Medici can't take this route.
Lorenzo gets to the side door which, obviously, does not open, despite frantic efforts. Now he has to make it to another door, which is through a half-dozen assassins.
Guiliano grabs the main door, which is bolted. He has now been stabbed seven times.
The next few minutes are poorly recorded due to their frenzied, chaotic nature. There was a lot of shoving, running, screaming, bashing on doors, throwing things, and moving around, some stabbing of loyalists, some stabbing of those on the Pazzi side, much overturning of tables, and we are sorry to report that those rioting are not experts in remembering the sequence of events and charting out the exact locations of every person in a crowd at a time.
Somewhere in this time, Lorenzo saw his brother. The emotions he must have felt at that moment can hardly be imagined.
Anyways, after a few more slashings, Lorenzo di Medici had, with he help of several loyalists, managed to get to a door, which had been very recently torn from its hinges by an inside crowd trying to get out and an outside crowd trying to get in. This outside crowd, coincidentally, contained several archers recently reassigned from a certain side door.
By this time, Guiliano had been stabbed a total of twenty times, once by Bernardo di Bandini Baroncellui and nineteen times by Francesco di Pazzi. Francesco was stabbing so furiously, he managed to stab himself in his own leg somehow. Now that he had realized that Guiliano was actually dead, Francesco decided to chuck his sword out the stained-glass window where Bernardo had escaped, alerting those on the Pazzi side to stop barricading the main door and let the heir of the Pazzi out. Such happened.
Francesco di Pazzi ran through the street, screaming "Death to the Medici"; right in front of the people of Florence, with the blood of their beloved Guiliano di Medici all over him, which failed to prove itself among Francesco's wisest choices. He might have been able to outrun the crowd if he hadn't stabbed his own leg. He might have been able to fight his way out if he hadn't chucked his sword and embedded his knife in his "friend". If he had had a horse, it's certain that that would have enabled him to outrun the crowd, but he had chosen not to bring a horse, wanting to be the person who personally escorted Guiliano di Medici to his death (along with Bernardo). He could have blended into the crowd if he hadn't been all screaming and declaring, "Death to the Medici". He could have hid if he hadn't been running around screaming. He would have been overlooked in the chaos if he hadn't made such a spectacle of himself.
Lorenzo di Medici was rushed to the hospital, the very same hospital that had housed Guiliano, and on Lorenzo's orders the great bell was rang, the bell that was heard everywhere in Florence, the bell that rang only in times of riot and-or invasion. It called the citizens of Florence to the main square as a militia.
A coup when you have infiltration, surprise, and organization on your side where your enemy does not is quite different from a military invasion of a City-State. Realizing that the day was lost, those in command of the army outside Florence called a retreat and cut their losses.
Those assassins who had tried to directly assassinate Lorenzo di Medici blended into the crowd and were never identified. The Archbishop, I think, lost everything and had a horrible death; which is what happened to basically all those involved in the Pazzi consiracy.
Raffaele was eventually proven innocent, despite all the circumstantial evidence. He never did get his horse back, though.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Where did that even come from?
Such as being able to dream immediately after falling asleep...
or something.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
This is more than has been provided for the two priests that stand so serenely behind Lorenzo, who is bowing as the mass begins. The congregation falls completely silent out of reverence, and everybody bows in prayer. The Bell rings, and the Priest raises the Host.
As the Bell rings, Bernardo de Bandini Baroncellui stabs Guiliano in the head as Francesco di Pazzi shoves Guiliano to the floor, where, with no support but his legs, being shoved to the floor, with his weight on his spine, Guiliano is in inordinate pain.
At the same Bell-ringing moment, one of the priests stumbles as he takes his sword out, and places his hand on Lorenzo's shoulder to support himself. At the same time, the other priest draws his knife to strike.
Just after the bell rings.
"Here, Traitor!" Bernardo screams as Guiliano de Medici howls in pain.
At the same time, Lorenzo opens his eyes, sees the blades, and jumps back, taking only a minor slash to the arm.
Francesco di Pazzi stabs Guiliano, ferociously, drawing his other knife, kicking, and jumping his charge, while Bernardo jumps off a nearby bench through a stained-glass window, onto a horse that has been hitched to a post.
Meanwhile, Lorenzo di Medici has drawn his sword and is rushing to the nearest door, which is a small side-door that the Achbishop is keeping slightly ajar.
From the time that the Bell started ringing it has been about three seconds.
And from this moment on, all heck has broken loose. Screaming, stabbing, the crowd is a frenzied mob and the congregation is a riot. The Archbishop bolts out his side door and slams it. He then signals to the archers outside to cover the other doors, Medici can't take this route.
Lorenzo gets to the side door which, obviously, does not open, despite frantic efforts. Now he has to make it to another door, which is through a half-dozen assassins.
Guiliano grabs the main door, which is bolted. He has now been stabbed seven times.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
She could punish me anytime
Also, thanks Cream, I needed that
Or was I a misanthrope? I can't remember.
Somewhere in this time, Lorenzo saw his brother. The emotions he must have felt at that moment can hardly be imagined.
Anyways, after a few more slashings, Lorenzo di Medici had, with he help of several loyalists, managed to get to a door, which had been very recently torn from its hinges by an inside crowd trying to get out and an outside crowd trying to get in. This outside crowd, coincidentally, contained several archers recently reassigned from a certain side door.
By this time, Guiliano had been stabbed a total of twenty times, once by Bernardo di Bandini Baroncellui and nineteen times by Francesco di Pazzi. Francesco was stabbing so furiously, he managed to stab himself in his own leg somehow. Now that he had realized that Guiliano was actually dead, Francesco decided to chuck his sword out the stained-glass window where Bernardo had escaped, alerting those on the Pazzi side to stop barricading the main door and let the heir of the Pazzi out. Such happened.
Francesco di Pazzi ran through the street, screaming "Death to the Medici"; right in front of the people of Florence, with the blood of their beloved Guiliano di Medici all over him, which failed to prove itself among Francesco's wisest choices. He might have been able to outrun the crowd if he hadn't stabbed his own leg. He might have been able to fight his way out if he hadn't chucked his sword and embedded his knife in his "friend". If he had had a horse, it's certain that that would have enabled him to outrun the crowd, but he had chosen not to bring a horse, wanting to be the person who personally escorted Guiliano di Medici to his death (along with Bernardo). He could have blended into the crowd if he hadn't been all screaming and declaring, "Death to the Medici". He could have hid if he hadn't been running around screaming. He would have been overlooked in the chaos if he hadn't made such a spectacle of himself.
Lorenzo di Medici was rushed to the hospital, the very same hospital that had housed Guiliano, and on Lorenzo's orders the great bell was rang, the bell that was heard everywhere in Florence, the bell that rang only in times of riot and-or invasion. It called the citizens of Florence to the main square as a militia.
A coup when you have infiltration, surprise, and organization on your side where your enemy does not is quite different from a military invasion of a City-State. Realizing that the day was lost, those in command of the army outside Florence called a retreat and cut their losses.
Those assassins who had tried to directly assassinate Lorenzo di Medici blended into the crowd and were never identified. The Archbishop, I think, lost everything and had a horrible death; which is what happened to basically all those involved in the Pazzi consiracy.
Raffaele was eventually proven innocent, despite all the circumstantial evidence. He never did get his horse back, though.
Also, Florence was put under an interdict.
I'm a rebel that way.